Morning Dew

In the early hours, before the sun decides what the day will be, a thin layer of dew settles quietly over the garden. No one notices it arriving. It doesn’t fall like rain or announce itself like a storm. It just gathers, droplet by droplet, until every leaf holds a small, shining weight. The plants don’t reach for it. They simply receive. By the time the light touches them, something subtle has already changed. The edges are softer, the green a little deeper, the stems less strained. What came in silence now sustains everything. Love can be like that. Not like the storm that arrives loudly, declares itself, and is gone as quickly as it came, leaving little behind. But the kind that lingers in small, consistent ways. A word said without urgency. A presence that doesn’t demand. A quiet returning, again and again. You don’t always see it happening. You don’t measure it day by day. But over time, it gathers. It rests on the surface of things, then slowly moves inward. And one morning, without knowing exactly when it happened, you realize you are no longer holding yourself together in the same way. Something has been holding you. Like the plants, there’s nothing to prove in it. Only a quiet kind of gratitude, for what arrives without noise, and gives life simply by being there.